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Tuesday, December 06, 2016

Join Me on the 2017 SMB Roadshow!

Please Join Me on the 2017 SMB Roadshow!

This all-day seminar will be 100% education. No vendors on site. No booths or up-selling. Just education on my very successful "Cloud Five Pack" and how we make 73% profit on our small clients. Details at SMBRoadshow.com.

The show is $999 at the door - but there's no excuse to pay that.

For one month before each show, you can get in for only $799.

And if you register before that, it's only $599! So right now, all cities are on sale at $599 - which is CHEAP since:

You probably don't have to travel far to find a city near you.

You only need to sell ONE client on this package to make your money back

This really is a business model you can execute right away. One guy from the "dry run" we did of this seminar was able to create an offering and sign two clients within TWO business days of the event!

Sessions Include:

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- Cloud Services in Small Business - 2017

- The Cloud Five-Pack

- Cloud Migration

- Implementation

- and MORE!

Seminar Objectives

This is a workshop - which means you will leave with some real-world goals, and the tools to implement them.

We will cover the strategies for creating a powerful and profitable cloud service offering for the small business market. My managed services businesses have been selling these bundled cloud services since 2008. In fact, it’s one of the things that helped us thrive during the recession!

This is NOT a 30 thousand foot overview. We will discuss:

Specific products and services

How to bundle them

How to maximize profit

How to combine cloud-based and onsite options

The best way to integrate your onsite server

Managing multiple accounts

Specific scripts for implementing your “Cloud 5-Pack” (or whatever you end up selling)

How to change/upgrade the bundle

Tiered pricing options

Click-by-click setup and integration

Selling the cloud bundle

Bandwith realities - and why you do NOT need massive bandwidth for a successful cloud integration

... and more!

The handouts include VERY detailed instructions for configuring your bundles, implementing services, and migrating clients to the cloud. About 150 pages - spiral bound and available for download.

Target Audience

This all-day seminar is intended for any IT service provider who wants to sell very profitable cloud-based services to small businesses. The ideal end-user client is anyone with 1 to 20 users.

You can certainly sell these services to larger companies - and this seminar will give you all the tools and strategies to do that - but larger companies tend to have slightly different requirements.

The basic cloud bundle is intended to provide all the technology a small company needs, including email, storage, backup, anti-virus, spam filtering, patch management, and remote support. You will learn how to up-sell this to include telephones, security monitoring, and other services.

The overall goal is to help you create a combination that is reasonably price for the client and hugely profitable for you.

Bonus Membership

We have created an exclusive Facebook page, open only to people who attend this seminar. It is a place to discuss the strategies presented in the seminar, share their experiences, exchange documents, and so forth.

Once you register for any city, and pay your tuition, you will have access to the Facebook group.

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